Rick Warren Hates Poor People

When conservative preacher Rick Warren raked in $2.4 million last December for his Saddleback Church (an archipelago of high-tech churches, gymnasium courts, restaurants and even a music school sitting on nine campuses of prime California real estate), he didn’t pay a penny of tax on that income. Saddleback Church is tax-exempt despite its wealth.

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When Rick Warren found out that half of Americans now are so poor that their income doesn’t meet the minimum threshold for income tax, he vented his all-caps rage on Twitter. His rage wasn’t directed at the misfortune of poverty. No, preacher Warren directed his ire at those nervy jobless poor people who don’t pay income taxes.